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  • Phone:

    5484

  • Email:

    amohammedwaked@pmu.edu.sa

  • Office No:

    F-035

  • Arifi Noman Mohammed Waked

  • Job Title :

    Assistant Professor

  • College :

    College of Sciences and Human Studies


  • Department :

    Humanities & Social Sciences


Dr. Arifi Waked is an assistant professor in the Department of Sciences and Human Studies and a research associate at the Cognitive Science Research Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University.

She attained her doctoral degree in Hearing and Speech Sciences with a focus in Psycholinguistics from the University of Maryland and has nearly 20 years of experience working with both undergraduate and graduate students as an educator, research mentor, and academic counselor.

Her research examines cognition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and factors impacting academic success in English as a foreign language learners with a focus on writing anxiety and self-efficacy. She is currently working with the Eastern Provence Deaf Assembly, examining linguistic, academic, cognitive, sociological, and social psychological issues faced by members of this community.

 

Doctor of Philosophy: University of Maryland-Hearing and Speech Sciences with a Focus in Psycholinguistics

Masters of Arts: American University of Beirut-Applied Linguistics

Bachelors of Arts: American University of Beirut-Linguistics

 

https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1222-0978

 

Pilotti, M., Alzahid, D. A., Waked, A., & El Alaoui, K. (2024). Approaching academic challenges as either opportunities or threats. The International Journal of Humanities Education, 22(2), 39-60.

Waked, A., El-Moussa, O., Pilotti, M. A., Al-Mulhem, H., El Alaoui, K., & Ahmed, R. (2024, April). Cultural considerations for the second language writing anxiety inventory: Saudi Arabian female university students. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 9, p. 1288611). Frontiers Media SA.

Pilotti, M. A., Al-Mulhem, H., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2023). Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic–English learner. Language Teaching Research, 13621688241231453.

Pilotti, M. A., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2024.) "“Who Is my instructor?”: Impression formation in the Middle East." The International Journal of Learning in Higher Education 31 (1): 195-216. doi:10.18848/2327-7955/CGP/v31i01/195-216.

Pilotti, M. A. & Waked, A. (2024). "The fading of cultural dispositions in a globalized environment." The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies 19 (1): 57-80. doi:10.18848/2327-008X/CGP/v19i01/57-80.

Pilotti, M. A., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. (2024). Grade prediction in the middle east: a post-pandemic case study of the optimism bias. Frontiers in Psychology14, 1270621.

Pilotti, M. A., Waked, A., El Alaoui, K., Kort, S., & Elmoussa, O. J. (2023). The emotional state of second-language learners in a research writing course: do academic orientation and major matter?. Behavioral Sciences13(11), 919.

Waked, A., El Alaoui, K., & Pilotti, M. A. (2023). Second-language writing anxiety and its correlates: A challenge to sustainable education in a post-pandemic world. Cogent Education10(2), 2280309.

Pilotti, M. A., Waked, A. N., El Alaoui, K., & Abdelsalam, H. (2023) Changing times in the middle of east and west: Cultural dispositions three years later. Frontiers in Education, 8. p. 1134190.

Pilotti, M. A., El Alaoui, K., & Waked, A. N. (2023). Battling unawareness of one’s test performance: Do Practice, Self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence matter?.Behavioral Sciences13(3), 275.

Karaki, F. M., Alani, O., Tannoury, M., Ezzeddine, F. L., Snyder, R. E., Waked, A. N., & Attieh, Z. (2021). Noncommunicable disease and health care-seeking behavior among urban camp-dwelling Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a preliminary investigation. Health equity5(1), 261-269.

Waked, A., Dougherty, S., & Goupell, M. J. (2017). Vocoded speech perception with simulated shallow insertion depths in adults and children. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America141(1), EL45-EL50.

Faroqi-Shah, Y., & Waked, A. N. (2010). Grammatical category dissociation in multilingual aphasia. Cognitive Neuropsychology27(2), 181-203.

 

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University

Eastern Provence Deaf Assembly

 

 

Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University: 

Undergraduate: Writing and Research, Introduction to Psychology, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Technical and Professional Communication, Written Communication 

Masters: Language, Culture, and Education

 

Prince Sultan Military College for Health Sciences: 

Undergraduate: English Language II, English Language I

Professional: Professional English Writing for Nurses 

 

University of Maryland: 

Undergraduate: Introduction to Language, College and Career Advancement: Concepts and Skills: Learning Strategies, College and Career Advancement: Concepts and Skills: Math Study Skills,

Masters: Introduction to Psycholinguistics,  

 

American University of Beirut: 

Undergraduate: Academic English Writing, Introduction to English

 

Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Psychoacoustics, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Reading and Writing in English as a Foreign Language, Academic Anxiety, Writing Anxiety, Deaf Studies, Public Health, Speech Impairment, Speech Perception